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Feds spending over $5.1M on facial recognition surveillance program

on August 21, 2013

"Meanwhile, a privacy expert, Woodrow Hartzog, law professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, echoed this sentiment and noted that facial recognition tech is "problematic for a number of reasons."

"The first is that facial recognition technologies require a database of images to be checked against," he wrote in an e-mail to Ars."

Date Published:08/21/2013
Original Publication:Ars Technica

Published in: Press , Face Recognition Technology , Privacy